Finite Element Head Modelling and Head Injury Predictors

This chapter presents a state-of-the-art review on finite element head modelling. In addition, it also includes a review about the parameters used as head injury criteria with finite element head models as well as their respective thresholds. The head injury criteria and the thresholds here summarised are the result of a great number publications available in the literature. These are the output from experimental and numerical research works. The injury thresholds presented in the latter were generally obtained through accident reconstructions with finite element head models. An overview of their evolution over the last decades and an assessment of the more complex ones are also presented.

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